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CISA hosts nation’s largest annual election security exercise

August 18, 2023

This week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) hosted the nation’s largest annual election security exercise.

CISA updates election security team

Security Staff

July 5, 2023

Cait Conley, Senior Advisor to the Director, will take on additional responsibilities supporting CISA’s election security efforts.

Global Cyber Alliance releases election cybersecurity recommendations

Security Staff

April 12, 2023

Ensuring digitized voting data remains secure from the time to someone votes until the election is over remains an international concern.

James Woolsey talks to Security magazine about election security and electromagnetic pulses

5 minutes with James Woolsey – On securing U.S. voting systems now and into the future

Maggie Shein

November 3, 2020

Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director R. James Woolsey Jr., a veteran of four presidential administrations and one of the nation’s leading intelligence experts, believes we should be worried about election security on a number of levels — though he says there are some relatively easy fixes. Woolsey discusses security threats surrounding the voting process, measures that can be put in place to mitigate those risks, as well as the biggest security threat to the U.S. outside of election security.

Can the U.S. election be hacked? Well yes it can but not in the way you think.

Could the U.S. Presidential election be hacked?

Tyler Moore

October 30, 2020

The answer is yes, but the how may be different than you think.

Microsoft takes down massive hacking operation

October 13, 2020

Microsoft has taken action to disrupt a botnet called Trickbot, one of the world’s most infamous botnets and prolific distributors of ransomware. Trickbot has infected over a million computing devices around the world since late 2016.

Tennessee election committee focusing on video surveillance and physical security for November election

Tennessee county to focus on physical security for November election poll sites

September 17, 2020

The Hamilton County Election Commission in Tennessee plans to utilize money from the Federal Cares Act to focus on physical security in time for the November election.

Millions of Americans' voter info is offered up for sale in Russia

September 2, 2020

Moscow-based business newspaper Kommersant reported this week that the voter details for millions of Americans is being offered for sale on a Russian hacking site.

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